UFO ROLL CALL- MAY 2012

Welcome to the

UFO Roll Call Home Sewing Arts Party

This linky party will be open all month long to make sure everyone gets the chance to link up and share their new handmade creations. 
   

Please plan to join in the fun by linking up posts and sharing images of the sewing and quilting projects you've been working on this month.  


This is a great opportunity to finish up all those UFOs and to start new projects too.  

This blog party is open to both quilting and domestic sewing projects and is a great place to show off your next homemade apron, your blue ribbon quilt, a newly completed cross-stitch, or that new flannel quilt tutorial.

Drumroll please!!!  My hubby Jerry volunteered to pick our April winning entry today- and the winner is Dolly of Dolly's Designs for submission #3 Making Aprons.  

http://dollysdesigns.blogspot.com/2012/04/making-aprons.html

Thank you Dolly for sharing your lovely embroidered aprons.  They're absolutely beautiful!  Look at the adorable machine embroidery clothesline detail on the pocket.  I love it.  I really like the high contrast rose colored bias binding finish too.  It's so feminine.

http://dollysdesigns.blogspot.com/2012/04/making-aprons.html

Dolly has a great talent for color and texture.  Just look at the images of her home, The Hibiscus House.  Dolly could be a professional designer, she's that good.  She has MANY talents, have you seen her Dolly is Cooking food blog???  Don't do it unless you love good food because just one look and you'll be hooked, I was.  Dolly CAN cook too.  

I am happy to call her friend.  I wish we lived closer so I could pick her brain sometimes... Congratulations Dolly!  You always contribute such pretty ideas. Thank you.

  

I enjoyed reading each of the April submissions so much.  Ann of Suburban Prairie Homemaker entered two adorable mug mat tutorials.  

http://www.suburbanprairiehomemaker.com/2012/04/tea-for-tuesday-easy-egg-mug-mat.html

The adorable Easter egg mug mat above was inspired by a pretty Easter card, the tutorial can be found HERE and this pretty little posy "Primitive Flower Quilted Mug Mat" 

http://www.suburbanprairiehomemaker.com/2012/04/tea-for-tuesday-primitive-flower-mug.html

whose tutorial can be found HERE.  For anyone that doesn't yet know, Ann is an incredibly talented crafter, quilter, sewer, teacher and designer.  I believe that she can make anything she sets her mind to create from scratch and she has another special gift that appeals to me.  Ann writes and demonstrates often complex information using words converting them into  in plain English for those of us (like lyself) that are pattern challenged.   plan and make it all new in her own style, beautifully.  I wish I could do a little of what Ann does.  She's an inspiration to me with every post.  Thank you Ann for sharing your talent and sunshine with all of us here.

Becky of Petticoat Junction shared a fantastic skirt she made by re-purposing a thrift store mini skirt and some new trendy ruffled fabric.  

http://petticoatjunctionsmom.blogspot.com/2012/04/super-quick-easy-sew-skirt.html

I love it.  It's so cute and summery.  I look forward to Becky's next post.  

Thank you for participating and for sharing such fun projects.

Mark your calendar!  

Let's get this party started!  All you have to do to enter is LINK UP one handmade quilt or sewn project YOU made during the month, before midnight on the last day of the month.  

Let's get to work on our next project to share with our sewing & quilting blog friends.  I'm feeling crafty and I hope you are too. 

I am linking this post to a few of my favorite hops-

Deborah Jean's Farmgirl Friday Blog Hop

Amy's Homestead Barn Hop (on Monday)

KarenLynn's The Ole' Saturday HomesteadingTrading Post

& I will be linking to Lisa's Made from Scratch Blog Hop (next Saturday)

Weekends R 4 FUN!

Someone once said that if you work hard, you SHOULD play hard too.  I agree.  Well, this week we worked VERY hard.  So today we played!  Here's what we did:

I attended my first monthly meeting for Thimbleberries Quilt Club 2012 and oh my was it FUN!  If you like quilts please check out my post about it HERE!  We got the fun pattern book below titled Pattern Party for our club projects and the first quarter fabric kit. Yahoo!

Debbie, my local quilt shop owner always spoils us with yummy treats and special sales for club members only, during the meeting.  Today, I got a few really cute gifts.  I just love saving money on quilt goodies!

Later on, the Hubby finished that wooden rocking horse he's been making for my niece Amelie's birthday this month.  She'll be two in a few weeks... 

Jerry made one for our son Jon when he was little.  He loved it.  He rode it so much he nearly wore out the seat. We still have it and someday Grandpa will give it a tune up for the grand kids.

My husband Jerry loves to make things from wood.  His favorite woodworking hobby is carving.  So, for Christmas I got him this book for carving Bellamy Eagles

I think they're so pretty.  I love old Americana and Civil War memorabilia.  Anyway, my hubby knows how much I love this kind of decor.  Today, he walked into my kitchen with this awesome new addition...

JUST FOR ME!!!

I was speechless.  Well almost.  You know me better than that.  What an amazing eagle.  Jerry is so talented.  he always amazes me.  

To thank him I prepared us a nice lunch and then I blended together some strawberries, cranberries, blueberries, raspberries, and grapes...

 added a bit of lemon juice and brown sugar

some vanilla bean ice cream and milk...  and we gulped down berry milkshakes til we hurt!

As I type, I am dehydrating some organic blueberries with that $4 dehydrator we got last weekend at a yard sale.  I managed to make a bit more progress on that pile of church lady aprons I am making.  All of the hard work is done for this week.  Tomorrow, I am going to direct sow some cold season crop seeds in the veggie garden, put on some comfy pjs, and nestle in for some football playoffs...

UFO ROLL CALL- JANUARY 2012

January 2012
Introducing a new monthly blog party for people passionate about SEWING & QUILTING!

UFO Roll Call
On the first day of each month in 2012, I will open a new Linky party post.  It will be open all month long to make sure everyone gets the chance to link up and share their new handmade creations.   

Please plan to join in on the fun by linking up posts and sharing images of the sewing and quilting projects you've been working on during the month.  This is a great opportunity to finish up all those UFOs and to start new projects too.  I plan to complete one project each month and the UFO Roll Call will be where I go to post my progress and look for ideas. 

This blog party is open to both quilting and domestic sewing projects. This is the place to show off your next homemade apron, your blue ribbon quilt, and to post that new flannel quilt tutorial.

Mark your calendar!  

To get this party started, we're having a GIVEAWAY at the end of this month!  All you have to do to enter is LINK UP one handmade quilt or sewn project YOU made during the month, before midnight on January 31, 2012.  

Let's get to work on our next project to share with our sewing & quilting blog friends.  I'm feeling crafty and I hope you are too.